Images: Joan Rivers Through the Years

Joan Rivers, the raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities, died Thursday, Sept. 4, 2014. She was 81. Rivers was hospitalized Aug. 28, after going into cardiac arrest at a doctor's office.

Joan Rivers, second from left, in 1961 with her Second City troop.

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In this April 30, 2012 file photo, Joan Rivers attends an E! Network event in New York.

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This image released by E! Entertainment shows, from left, Kelly Osbourne, EJ Johnson, Joan Rivers, George Kotsiopoulos, and Giuliana Rancic on the set of "Fashion Police."

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This image released by E! Entertainment shows, from left, Kelly Osbourne, EJ Johnson, Joan Rivers, George Kotsiopoulos, and Giuliana Rancic on the set of "Fashion Police."

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In this May 14, 2014 file photo, TV personality Joan Rivers attends A Celebration of Barbara Walters in New York.

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In this May 14, 2014 file photo, TV personality Joan Rivers attends A Celebration of Barbara Walters in New York. Melissa Rivers announced Thursday, Sept. 4, that her mother Joan died Thursday, in New York.

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In this Monday, Feb. 17, 2014 photo provided by NBC, Joan Rivers appears with Jimmy Fallon during his debut on "The Tonight Show" in New York.

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In this Sunday, July 26, 2009 file photo, Joan Rivers greets the audience at the "Comedy Central Roast of Joan Rivers" in Los Angeles.

Popular night club comedienne Joan Rivers, shown in her Bel Air home, tells of her problems to get financial backing for her directorial effort, "Rabbit Test" in Los Angeles, April 14, 1978.

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Director-comedienne Joan Rivers watches the loan papers she signed, putting her home up as collateral for money to finish a picture she directed, go up in flames in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 24, 1978.

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Joan Rivers with her husband, Edgar, at a benefit to raise money to fight the disease, AIDS, at the Shubert Theatre in New York on May 19, 1985. The benefit featured Joan Rivers and Boy George among other talents.

Comedian Joan Rivers reacts after presented with a frying pan, honoring her with the First Instant Pudding Award University? Hasty Pudding Theatricals on Tuesday, June 3, 1986 in Cambridge.

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Comedian Joan Rivers and Barry Diller, chairman of Fox Inc., arrive for news conference in Los Angeles to announce that she will host a live talk show on Fox Broadcasting Co. that will compete with late night king Johnny Carson, May 6, 1986.

Performers on the first episode of The Late Show pose with star Joan Rivers, Oct. 9, 1986. From left: Elton John, Joan Rivers, Cher, and Pee Wee Herman.

Entertainer Joan Rivers, center, with her husband Edger Rosenberg, left and daughter Melissa, leave the Fox Broadcasting Studios in Los Angeles, May 16, 1987 after taping what might be her last show for the company.

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A subdued Joan Rivers makes her first television appearance since the August death of her husband in Pasadena, Calif. during the 39th Annual Emmy Award at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Sept. 21, 1987.

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Comedian Joan Rivers gets a lift from rock 'n' roll legend Chuck Berry at the Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center in New York, Feb. 17, 1988.

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Joan Rivers stars in Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound," on Broadway. She's seen during an interview in New York, July 21, 1988.

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Comedienne Joan Rivers gestures as she chats with talk show host Arsenio Hall on The Arsenio Hall Show in Los Angeles on Friday, Feb. 25, 1989.

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Comedienne Joan Rivers poses next to her new star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 26, 1989. She was honored for her contributions to the world of entertainment, specifically television.

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Joan Rivers makes it quite clear - she?s starting a new syndicated talk show and its name is "The Joan Rivers Show," in Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1989

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New York Post columnist Joey Adams gets a birthday kiss from comedienne Joan Rivers at his 80th birthday celebration at the Helmsley Hotel in New York, Jan. 8, 1991.

Entertainer RuPaul, left, sings a number from his debut album "Supermodel of the World" with Joan Rivers during taping of her show in New York, July 28, 1993.

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Comedian Joan Rivers, right, the subject of the documentary film "Joan Rivers - A Piece of Work," poses for a photo with a fan on Main Street during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010.

From left to right, singer Adam Lambert, comedian Joan Rivers, television personality Kelly Osbourne, and television personality Melissa Rivers pose together at the "Glamorous By George" book launch hosted by Joan and Melissa Rivers on Monday, Jan. 13, 2014.

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Katie Couric, departing co-host of the NBC television "Today" program, laughs as Joan Rivers critiques a retrospective video tape of her fashions throughout Couric's 15-year tenure on the show,

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Larry King stands next to Joan Rivers at a party held by CNN celebrating King's fifty years of broadcasting, New York, Wednesday, April 18, 2007.

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Comedian Joan Rivers arrives for the 11th Annual Mark Twain Prize for Humor, honoring the late George Carlin, at the Kennedy Center in Washington on Monday, Nov. 10, 2008.

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US actors and comedians Joan Rivers and Robin Williams backstage at the Wimbledon Theatre after a charity performance in aid of the Prince's Trust charity, in London, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008.

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Comedienne Joan Rivers hoists up the pot symbolic of the Harvard University Hasty Pudding Theatrical club's "Woman of the Year" award at presentation ceremonies at the Hasty Pudding Club in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 16, 1984.

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Comedian Joan Rivers, center, holds up a poster of Jack Paar, former host of NBC's "Tonight Show," which was given to her by the cast of National Lampoon's "Class of 86" in New York, June 5, 1986.

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Joan Rivers looks at beads during the Krewe of Orpheus parade in the Uptown area of New Orleans Monday, Feb. 23, 2009.

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American artist Joan Rivers poses for photographers as she presents "Comedy Roast with Joan Rivers " during the 25th MIPCOM (International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite) in Cannes, southeastern France in 2009.

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American artist Joan Rivers poses for photographers as she presents "Comedy Roast with Joan Rivers " during the 25th MIPCOM (International Film and Programme Market for TV, Video, Cable and Satellite) in 2009.

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In this Oct. 30, 1986 file photo, talk show host Joan Rivers, right, talks with guest, first lady Nancy Reagan, during her appearance on "The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers," on Fox TV.

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Dolly Parton, right, appears with host Joan Rivers during taping, Monday, March 1, 1993 in New York of The Joan Rivers Show,.

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Joan Rivers, left, and Sarah Silverman are seen on stage at the 16th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011, in Los Angeles.

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